Category Archives: MNA reports

(Report by John Clegg). Twelve members came out. The morning was bright but it turned very wet in the afternoon and the fields were very soggy and covered with standing water. Birds seen: Collared Dove, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Kestrel, Dunnock, … Continue reading →

Steve with Rocky the Eagle Owl Steve and Marg Dewsnap from Rockcliffe Raptors, Flintshire, North Wales brought in a selection of European Raptors and Owls from their private collection. These included a Barn Owl Tyto alba called Ko’ko, Tawny Owl … Continue reading →

From Tony Carter On Saturday, 6th October, the sun shone. So I went for a walk around the woods at Hale: Hale Hall Wood and The Icehouse Plantation. The primary reason was to check on a fungus, Rhodotus palmatus (Wrinkled … Continue reading →

Mike Barrow kindly drove Chris Derri, DaveH and I to the National Trust Reserve at Lyme Park. We parked at the railway station at Disley and wandered along the Gritstone Trail across farmland and through a small copse containing a few … Continue reading →

From Tony Carter On Saturday, 29th, I led a short foray at Ainsdale Sand Dunes Reserve for the public, on behalf of Peter Gahan, the Reserve Manager. Fortunately, the sun shone. We managed to identify over thirty of the more … Continue reading →

From Tony Carter I avoided the monsoon rains yesterday to take a look at the shrubbery in Calderstones Park, Liverpool. It runs from the Harthill Road end, where the model railway is, towards the main path leading to the Hall. … Continue reading →

Four MNA members met at Lime St to catch the train to Newton-le-Willows and the 34 bus to Pennington Flash. We were running late and unlikely to meet those members arriving by car by 11am so Barbara phoned the leader … Continue reading →

I joined fourteen members of the Liverpool Botanical Society walk around Dibbinsdale NR. It was billed as a fungal foray but there seems to be a distinct lack of fungi at the moment only a few common species were found … Continue reading →

From Tony Carter, 12th September 2012 After the foray at Freshfield on Sunday, 9th, I travelled back to Liverpool South Parkway, where I had left my car. Driving into Long Lane dual carriageway at Garston, I noticed some fungi on … Continue reading →

From Tony Carter, 9th September 2012 A fungus that I always look for in hedgerows is Tubaria dispersa (previously T. auctocthona). This attractive little species is found under Hawthorn and grows out of the buried, mummified berries. I look for … Continue reading →